Treatise on gunnery by Richard Wright
Reference code
MSS/0094
Title
Treatise on gunnery by Richard Wright
Date
1563
Level of description
item
Extent and format
Paper; ff. 37.
Folio.
Paper cover, fol. 1. Bound with MSS/0085. Scribbles fol. 1 include the name of Samuel Thomas, 17th century, and a recipe for ink.
Folio.
Paper cover, fol. 1. Bound with MSS/0085. Scribbles fol. 1 include the name of Samuel Thomas, 17th century, and a recipe for ink.
Scope and content
A treatise on gunnery, with instructions for making powder and other fireworks (fol. 17) by Richard Wright whose name is given on fol. 2 (in a penwork initial I, with the opening of Psalm 9 referring to marvellous works) (fol. 3v). Many pen drawings of cannon, fireworks, etc. Illustrations also include:- Tudor badges, fol. 3v; a standing figure holding a rule, fol. 5v; royal arms with Tudor badges, fol. 6; soldiers in a turret, with cannon, fol. 28v; ship with cannon, fol. 29. Main text ends fol. 34v. At fol. 36r, v, prognostications from the signs of the zodiac relating to journeys. Transcript by Dr Steven A. Walton (Toronto, PhD thesis, 1999), Appendix II, 357-88 (copy in SAL).
Creator
Wright, Richard (fl 1563)
Previous reference number(s)
SAL/MS/94
Archival history
Scribbles on fol.1 include the name of Samuel Thomas, 17th century, and a recipe for ink. Note, fol.1, by I.Tascy (?), junior, that the MS was found in a cheesemonger’s shop near St Clements, London, in June 1804.
Presented by Sir Joseph Banks, KB, FSA, 14 Dec.1809 (fol.2). Minute Book XXXII, p.263. Archaeologia, 16 (1812), 371.
Digitisation of this manuscript was kindly sponsored by N R Jenzen-Jones.
Presented by Sir Joseph Banks, KB, FSA, 14 Dec.1809 (fol.2). Minute Book XXXII, p.263. Archaeologia, 16 (1812), 371.
Digitisation of this manuscript was kindly sponsored by N R Jenzen-Jones.
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